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It is absurd for either candidate to point to current GE head-to-head matchups as an indicator of electability versus the other, especially since almost all of them fluctuate week to week. The election is 6 Months Away!
Keep some perspective:
-Around this time in '88 Dukakis was leading Bush by double digits in national polls.
-Around this time in '92 Bill Clinton was polling a distant third and Ross Perot was on his way to becoming the next President.
-6 months ago, the same amount of time till the GE, all polls indicated Hillary Clinton was going to steamroll her way to the nomination by Super Tuesday. On the Republicans side, Rudy Giuliani was the frontrunner and Romney was the dark horse, while McCain's campaign was a late night joke.
In the past 2 weeks alone there have been polls showing Obama faring better against McCain, and some showing Clinton faring better. All of these polls are meaningless this far out. The nomination process has to be about issues. 4 years ago we nominated the candidate deemed "the most electable" and we all saw how that turned out.
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